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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Related to the article, what is the reason that schools and colleges use a 4.0 rather than a 5.0 scale to measure grades they were measuring at 10 point increments? People seem too dumb to understand that a 0 doesn't make sense because we don't have a 10 letter grading scale and one letter shouldnt comprise of 60 points and the rest of the letters 10 (and this is not the first article where people can't understand this basic observation) why not just have a 5.0 grading system? It would still use 10 points between grades and give people their zero they are so adamant to have? Why 4.0 when there are typically five letter grades?[/quote]

This whole "one letter shouldn't comprise 60 points" argument is a red herring. Nobody cares about the letters. Most other countries don't even use the stupid letters. 
Getting a D should mean that the student showed mastery of 64% of the content, so roughly two-thirds, which is the minimum acceptable level to be considered to have passed the class. Less than two thirds is unacceptable. Of course, with the relentless grade inflation we have, many students are passed who shouldn't pass because not passing them is such a ridiculous hassle.[/quote]

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